The first aircraft to land on the storage reservoir above the Grand Coulee Dam. The plane, a Fairchild C-24, was piloted by Mr. Alfred Wolf, with Mrs. Wolf as passenger, and was being flown from factory to a customer.

The last tree remaining on the Columbia River reservoir area, being felled by Mr. F.A. Banks, Supervising Engineer of the Bureau of Reclamation, and Mr. Carl W. Smith, State Administrator of the Work Projects Administration. The location is in the...

"Flame-cleaning" the exterior of a spillway drum gate, preparatory to the application of four coats of paint. Eighteen acres of metal surface stared welders in the face when they recently began cleaning the interiors and exteriors of the 11 giant...

The Bureau of Reclamation is erecting a sawmill and planer, with a normal daily capacity of approximately 25,000 board-feet, on the west shore of the reservoir, in the area of Ryan's dump. The sawmill building (at the left) is of heavy timber...

The right powerhouse nearing completion. The control bay remains to be added. Plyboard coverings have been placed over the 40' x 17' windows. The elevation of the river is 938.12, and the flow over the spillway, 41,000 c.f.s.

A bucket conveyor will be used to lift aggregate from timber bunkers to the top of the new Bureau of Reclamation mixing plant, where a chute will direct the flow into any one of three compartments of a storage bin.